That's where Pierre met Sophie Grilliat, a French chef who owns a catering business. Ventura and a colleague hired Grilliat to pick three of Pierre's soup recipes that she would pair with appetizers and desserts at a festival celebrating computational creativity.

"The French people take their food seriously, so this was potentially career suicide for her," said Ventura only half-jokingly.

In fact, at first glance, Grilliat was uncertain that the recipes would produce soup that was even edible.

PIERRE doesn't just exploit ingredient combinations that you'll find in traditional recipes that are highly rated. Instead, BYU computer scientists folded in an extra measure of creativity so that PIERRE predicts unusual combinations that taste surprisingly good together.

At the festival, the plan was to serve soups during breaks between poetry sessions. Grilliat ultimately settled on three recipes with the following computer-generated names: Broth of Pure Joy, Divine Steak over Water and Scrumptious Broth with Bean. You can find the recipes below.

The soups proved so joyous, divine and scrumptious that they ran out of all three during the first break.

"My opinion about those recipes is mainly really good in terms of taste and on the principle," Grilliat wrote. "Actually those three recipes we decided to choose amongst a score the computer had generated were edible (which was not obvious at the beginning), and quite good!"

While PIERRE is strong in creativity, he's weak in culinary technique. Another AI chef from IBM has the same problem. But Grilliat loves the combination of using artificial intelligence to get inspiration and human chefs to make it a reality.

"It remains very stimulating to offer a new mix of ingredients we would never expect to suit with each other, which is one of the essences of cooking as one of the most interesting human experiences!" Grilliat wrote.

So geek out and cook one of these computer-generated recipes in your crock pot at home.